The linked site (http://www.physicsmyths.org.uk/) is a crackpot site which argues that special and general relativity are wrong. So (given what I have heard from credible authorities about the workings of GPS’s) I would actually bet that the claim is false.
I only briefly eyeballed the site, and didn’t have that much awareness of the content. I am aware that GPSes incorporate the predictions of General Relativity for their calibration, but it did not strike me as implausible that the deviations from Newtonian physics would be within their error margins, at least up to this time of operation. I admit that I was very much premature in asserting that it was true without doing the calculations myself. Thanks for pointing that out.
I’m hesitant to point this out after saying I wasn’t going to engage with him anymore, but this sounds way less like something someone who’s sincerely spent months chasing after the idea that Eliezer is seriously misguided for what he wrote in Configurations and Amplitudes would say than someone who was deliberately trying to crank the levers of other readers. I’ve wavered previously on whether to give him the benefit of the doubt, but at this point I think it’s only fair to assume that Monkeymind is a troll rather than a hopelessly confused person.
The linked site (http://www.physicsmyths.org.uk/) is a crackpot site which argues that special and general relativity are wrong. So (given what I have heard from credible authorities about the workings of GPS’s) I would actually bet that the claim is false.
I only briefly eyeballed the site, and didn’t have that much awareness of the content. I am aware that GPSes incorporate the predictions of General Relativity for their calibration, but it did not strike me as implausible that the deviations from Newtonian physics would be within their error margins, at least up to this time of operation. I admit that I was very much premature in asserting that it was true without doing the calculations myself. Thanks for pointing that out.
I’m hesitant to point this out after saying I wasn’t going to engage with him anymore, but this sounds way less like something someone who’s sincerely spent months chasing after the idea that Eliezer is seriously misguided for what he wrote in Configurations and Amplitudes would say than someone who was deliberately trying to crank the levers of other readers. I’ve wavered previously on whether to give him the benefit of the doubt, but at this point I think it’s only fair to assume that Monkeymind is a troll rather than a hopelessly confused person.